Yesterday, a coalition of U.S. manufacturing groups known as the American Materials Manufacturing Alliance recommended changes to the American Clean Energy and Security Act (HR 2454) in a letter to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) of the Senate Committee on Environment…
GEA Power Cooling Inc. (Lakewood, Colo.; www.geaict.com), a subsidiary of GEA Group (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com), received an order to supply, design and erect a cooling tower for the combined cycle power plant “West County” in Palm Beach County, Fla. The…
Along with other industrial companies, Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com/energy) is participating in the Desertec initiative to provide sustainable power to Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. A corresponding Memorandum of Understanding was signed today in Munich. Environmentally friendly…
Sturtevant Inc., (Hanover, Mass.; www.sturtevantinc.com) has entered into an agreement as the exclusive supplier of corn fractionation mills to Crown Iron Works (Roseville, Minn.; www.crowniron.com). Sturtevant’s Simpactor Pin Mill was chosen by Crown to play a pivotal role in their…
The Chinese central government has approved the Joint Feasibility Study Report submitted by BASF and SINOPEC for the expansion of their joint venture (JV), BASF-YPC Co., Ltd. (BYC), in Nanjing, China, as of July 1, 2009. BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany;…
Alfa Laval (Lund, Sweden; www.alfalaval.com) has received two orders for Alfa Laval Packinox heat exchangers from Petrobras in Brazil. The total value is about SEK 55 million and was booked late June 2009. The delivery is scheduled for 2011. …
Rhodia (Paris; www.rhodia.com) today announces its first business development investment in biogas technology, by acquiring Econcern Group’s participation in six pilot biogas production projects located in China and Vietnam. Anticipating the growth of business opportunities in the biogas sector, Rhodia…
Borouge, a joint venture between the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.; www.adnoc.ae), and Borealis (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com), is expanding its production capacity of polyolefins in Abu Dhabi to 4.5 million metric tons per year by the end…
A consortium formed by Evonik Degussa GmbH, Cabot Corp., Columbian Chemicals Co., Timcal Belgium S.A., Sid Richardson Carbon & Energy Co., Continental Carbon Co., and Cancarb Ltd. has successfully submitted the REACH dossier for carbon black to the European Chemicals…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has officially launched a new multilateral collaboration to develop a groundbreaking, innovative technology for the production of synthetic rubber. The new technology will use fewer resources and is therefore considerably more energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly than…